Platform Engineer

About the Job

Role Summary: A senior-level DevOps and platform engineer responsible for designing, building, and managing scalable AWS infrastructure to support AI, data science, and application workloads. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive automation initiatives, implement infrastructure as code, and ensure security and compliance across cloud environments. The position requires deep AWS expertise and experience with container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CloudFormation) across multiple AWS accounts.
• Build, optimize, and automate CI/CD pipelines, adopting shift-left practices for testing and deployment.
• Implement automation and enforce security and compliance policies at resource and repository levels.
• Support deployment automation into diverse containerized clusters and data platforms.
• Manage complex pipelines involving multi-cloud, multi-platform, and on-premises systems.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers to promote best practices and technical growth.
• Automate compliance integrations into CI/CD workflows using Terraform, Python, and Shell scripting.
• Collaborate with teams to troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, deployment, and security issues.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of cloud architecture, security standards, and DevOps tools.
• Participate in on-site operations at the downtown office, with occasional travel to the West Houston location as needed.

Qualifications:

• 5 or more years of experience working within the AWS cloud ecosystem as a DevOps or Platform engineer.
• Deep expertise in AWS services and architecture best practices.
• 5 or more years of experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Extensive experience supporting Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming with languages including Python, Bash, and Shell.
• 5 or more years of Linux/Unix system administration.
• 5 or more years working with code repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps.
• 3 or more years supporting CI/CD tools including GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, and architecture patterns.
• Excellent troubleshooting and incident response skills.
• AWS architecture certification is preferred.
• Must be available to work on-site in downtown office five days a week and support occasional travel to the West Houston office.

Publishing Pay Range: $100.00 - $103.00 hourly

Location Requirements: On-Site